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Abstract:

From ritual to circus

As lateral means to a dramatic end, my early solo initiatives Whwymgb?, Pecu, amnd and Opæan defined a sur­prisingly co­herent pro­ject, pro­viding material and direction for all subse­quent collab­oration. Primarily, I would lead Psychological Art Circus to create a body of theatrical work guided by the lives of three seers, Anna O., Olive Pixley, and in Illusions of Reference the Oracle, Pythia.

After Illusions, I began to discover the conceptual frame­work for a three-ring circus through exploring the life of Mallorcan mystic Ramon Llull. The results of my sustained research — visual, sonic, and sys­tem­atic — are now the inspiration for an evolving series of hybrid lecture performances.

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